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The Harlem Renaissance Shatrice Lucas, Anahi Murillo, Marissa Carlos, and Daniel Morales



__**A panting created by Romare Bearden who was alive during the Harlem Renaissance time period.**__ [|History and Paintings of Romare Bearden]

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 * Augusta Savage’s**

The most acclaimed sculptor working during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, and Gamin is her most famous work.









Brother to Brother ====This Sundance audience pleaser about a young gay brother (played with heart by Anthony Mackie) from Harlem who befriends an elder who recounts his salad days during the Harlem Renaissance is remarkable because it breathes life into the much-written about black literati scene of the time and deals with art, literature, masculinity, homophobia, and race in ways no modern Black film ever has.==== The Harlem renaissance was an African American cultural movement that reached between 1925 and 1935 in a district of New York City called Harlem. The harlem renaissance got its name because it reminded observers of the European renaissance (i.e. “re-birth”) that began in the 14th and 15th centuries and permanently changed European culture and society. ([]) This time period was the first time that white Americans gave any attention to African American cultural. Harlem was a Jewish neighborhood until 1910, when large numbers of African americans began migrating into the area from the south. By the 1920s Harlem was the largest and most influential African American community in the nation. Out of this communtiy came a wide variety of artist and musicans. The Harlem renaissance was led by Alain Locke (1886-1954).the first African American Rhodes scholar, who was a philosophy professor at Howard University. ([|http://www.enotes.comhistoryq-and-awhat-was-harlem-renaissance-286318]) The search for equality and freedom for African Americans has been fought on many fronts. in the area of the arts, the involvement of black America has been so overpowering that it has greatly eased racial tensions and changed the image of black culture. Americans now see the African Americans so thoughtful. Many have said a word, the world of such black performers, artists along with artists in literature, painting, poetry, music and all the arts have brought a favorable reception of black culture that has more of the positive reception of African Americans by all people more than anything else ever could do.Black culture in history, the Harlem renaissance in the 1920s was time when African American culture was a showcased for the country. The world and people started to barely recognize the rich legacy that was available to all people in the black culture.th Harlem renaissance was more than what the people thought of them. More than just a greater exposure to black dance, music, comedy or theater even though for the people to appreciate them was by their talent of black artists. The Harlem Renaissance was also to the cultural and social movements of the time. This made black pride and this is when it started to begin to cause many and big changes in the way of African Americans. How they thought about themselves and how all Americans thought of African Americans as well. This led to the explosion of black culture at the time frame and more at New York City. Mecca had been the city for artists of every culture for a long time as it still is today. At the time of frame there was a migration of the African American population to the north and to the urban industrial areas particularly to take advantage of the economic opportunities there. With the migration of the African American population, the rich black music that had continued to grow and grew more ever since the Civil War. But because of the concentration of cultures in New York and the willingness to experiment, to blend and to discover new cultures that was the norm in that melting pot city, white America too began to discover the jazz, blues, spirituals and gospel music that began to evolve and integrate into many secular musical styles of the time. The renaissance was a era just as much as the great cultural renaissance in Europe had been many years before it. The black culture exploded onto the national consciousness. Many outstanding, stand-out names that became household names for literature and the arts came into their own during the Harlem Renaissance.The cultural explosion that occurred during that brief time frame created a tidal wave of change that is still being felt today. And by imitation cultures began to merge and blend to where they could never live separately again. And that blending and enjoyment of black culture has done much to help integrate society and make social change and acceptance of each other’s cultures by black and white a possibility today. ([]) **Harlem politics** During the early decades in the twentieth century, the blacks has faced harsh challenges. at the end of the civil war they had gave the African Americans right and civil liberties. During this time it had gotten better than them being slaves. Segregations, limits on voting rights, and racist attacks combined. Harlem is where black culture increased, serving as a bulwark against of racism. African Americans saw hope in a difficult time that Harlem is a place where there is hope. Political and cultural made the African Americans go fill out throughout America with the sense that there will be greater times heading their way. Harlem politics is one of the most important factor about the Harlem Renaissance is that African Americans in the north were allowed to vote. That’s when it began to show African Americans importance of the political involvement. Segregation led to the creation of predominantly Black neighborhoods. The blacks never had anything to do with slavery. Many blacks had work in factories in cities in Chicago, Cleveland, Flint, and more there expansion of the area like Harlem. The expansion allowed the blacks to form their own was in New York. Many jobs and union of crowds helped the networks, publications, and organizations. This continued even greater the development of their cultural and political ideas in Harlem and across the country. ([]) The **Harlem** **Renaissance** was from the 1920's and 1930's. At one time People also call it the Black Literary Renaissance and the New Negro Movement. The Harlem Renaissance centers the Harlem neighborhood of New York City and had an impact throughout the United States. At that time there were many racistism going around. The white people thought the black people were worth nothing. As in they didn’t knew how to do anything. That’s why the African Americans couldn’t go to school, only work in factories, lived in such poverty and that’s why whites were treated better and blacks weren’t. The white people always looked at them down. As we can see in those days the African American felt that the world didn’t want them since all the things that happen to them and how they live and how they are treated. They know it’s not right. They know they suffer a lot like a father working hard in the factories to know how much he gets paid is not enough. To know he cannot maintain his family as he wishes he could. To know maybe everyday if his wife and kids might have something to eat today or tomorrow. When the African American finally realizes they should have pride in themselves they could do something. They are all equal and they found out to having pride in themselves being African American that’s when things began to change from 1920 to around 1940. Later on the African American started taking action to prove the white people wrong. They started to be recognizing for their understanding and important contributions to their American culture through the Harlem renaissance. Now African Americans started to become recognize for their talent through their American culture and through the harem renaissance. This later on lead to a springboard actors, musicians, poets, artist, and writers of fiction. Sociologist, historians and activists started organizations such as the national association for the advancement of colored people known as the (NACCP). The national urban league, the second pan African congress and the colored player’s guild. Many of the African Americans were who migrated and were descendants slaves who had the chance for education and many other advanced degrees from prominent schools. They all agree with one another with the same conflict is for them all to be recognized for their contributions, for them to be taken serious from everyone about their political views, and most of all is them to be treated equally because we are all the same no matter what color skin you are. ([]) African Americans felt that they were marginalized because they didn't have the same rights as other races did. They were highly looked down upon because they were once slaves.they were being treated horribly during the war when they were fighting on the samew team as the whites. The whites had stripped away all the pride that negros had. thats why there was such a huge movement. they finally gained the confindence and support of others that felot like racism is wrong. Many African Americas were stereotyped. Thoses stereotypes had always stuck with the African American culture. to be Stereotyped means to be simplified image of a person, group or ethnicity. People thought blacks were:
 * //Harlem history//**
 * Significance and themes**
 * Marginalization due to stereotypes **
 * African Americans weren't able to vote even though it was allowed the U.S. Constitution.
 * didn't get an even/fair education
 * Stupid
 * Irresponssible
 * Love watermelon
 * Poor
 * Ghetto
 * Always had bad attitudes

Whites always would use these hurtful words to taunt African Americans.I believe that African americans were less educated and had bad attitudes due to what they have been through and how they have been treated by whites. Also they didn't have the same rights and priveleges as whites.

Music

The Jazz Age At the end of WW1 Americans experienced an economic change called "The Roaring 20s". Many blacksmoved to harlem to shoe offf their talent in hopes of a better life because of the excitement of the lights.The Prohibition Act and since alcohol was difficult to obtain people just simply went to drink at nightclubs. The most famous club is the cotton club.It was deisgned to have the look and feel of a southern plantation.

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African Americans would go to the cotton club to enjoy themselve, indulge in a few drinks and also it was something that was "//theirs//" after the fight for freedom.Although whites did stop by there wasn't any trouble between the two races. They came there to learn more about African Americans.Whites thought the performers had great talent and the found that facinating. African Americans called them speakeasies and only their kind were able to perform. Nathaniel Deft (Music Composer and Conductor) insisted on expanding music in the blacks point of view. []

//Born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915.// //It all started when she moved to harlem with her mother in the 1920s. Billie had a very hard life and found that music was one of her escapes from everything. So by the time she was around 15 years old the cotton gin had already been created. Then Billie Holiday began to sing there and years later became one of the greatest jazz singer of all time. (along with Lena Horne)//

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Video of music and images from painters during the Harlem Renaissance. [] //,Duke Ellington// [] //and Louis Armstrong)// []

Most poems written in the Harlem Renaissance have to deal with the hardship the writters went through. The writers, such as Lanston Hughes,used poetry to express his feelings toward white people and other topics that concerned most African Americans at that time. Langstons work was famous because he was an American poet, novelist, playwrighter, short story writer, and columnist. He became one of the most famous African American poet.  Read more: [|http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_Langston_hughes_more_known_for#ixzz1jsghxlBF] ( Childern's Rhymes)
 * Literature **

By what sends the white kids I ain't sent I know I can't be president what don't bug them white kids sure bugs me we know everybody ain't free Lies written down for white folks ain't for us a-tall []

Hughes also wrote about dreams, and how because he is an African-American, his dreams would be extremly difficult to pursuit. These kind of poems appealed to all sorts of audiences. this poem was inspired by his dad. Langston Hughes dad wanted to become a lawyer but couldn't due o the fact that he was black. A law was passed that didn't allow black people to become lawyers, so he left to Mexico to pursuit his dream. (As I Get Older)

It was a long time ago I have almost forgotten my dream But it was there then In front of me Bright like a sun My dream and then the wall rose Rose slowly Between me and my dream Rose until it touched the sky The wall Shadow I am black i lie down in the shadow No longer the light of my dream before me above me Only the thick wall Only the shadow my hands Break through the wall Find my dream Help me to shatter this darkness To smash this night To break this shadow Into a thousand lights of the sun Into a thousand lights of sun of sun []

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A video about Hughes and his life during the Harlem Renaissance. Other writers expressed their problems through short stories such as "for colored girls who have considered suiside when the rainbow is enugh" [] where it tells the story of African-American girls. The problems that they go through such as love, abandoment, rape and abortion. Writers then express themselves and make a stand in their writing. They speakout to the public about the issues between different races.

=**Harlem Shadows**= i hear the halting footsteps of a lass In Negro Harlem when the night lets fall Its veil i see the shapes of girls who pas Eager to heed desire's insistent call Ah, little dark girls, who in slippered feet Go prowling through the nigh from street to street

Through the long night until the silver break Of day the little gray feet know no rest, Through the lone night until the last snow flake Has dropped from heaven upon the earth's white breast, The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street Ah, stern harsh world, that in the wretched way Of poverty, dishonor and disgrace, Has pushed the timid little feet of clay. The sacred brown feet of my fallen race! Ah, heart of me, the weary, weary feet In Harlem wandering from street to street

by; Claude McKay

Langston Hughes and Claude McKay's poem were so popular because they connected with the audience. They wrote about struggles that regular people go through. Like most of the poems and short stories in the Harlem Renaissance, they wrote about their race.